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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:44:08 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CTM and the Attic
Message-ID:  <199707151544.JAA28407@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <l03102801aff0d17b8bf5@[208.2.87.4]>
References:  <AFF005F2-8F60D@204.69.236.50> <19970715012130.45333@keltia.freenix.fr> <l03102801aff0d17b8bf5@[208.2.87.4]>

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> >> The tree as distributed by CTM is just the same as you get by running CVSup
> >> on the CVS tree...
> >
> >The main problem with CTM is when large number of files are deleted. The
> >deleted files end up in the Attic but get transmitted. Problem is that the
> >delta generation has no concept of "a file being moved"...
> 
> The last time that I looked, CVSup still had the same problem.

Huh?  CVSup hasn't had this 'problem' in a long time, if ever.  John
would know more, but for as long as I can remember, it knows to 'move'
files into the Attic instead of deleting/re-transmitting them.

> Perhaps the
> "problem" is that such movement should not occur in the first place.

CVS requires that for deletion of files off the main branch.


Nate



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